Contact Sports

February 10, 2006|Joshua Weiner Westglades Middle School Parkland

In public middle schools, they do not allow any contact sports, although in private schools contact is allowed in sports. Many students such as myself play sports with physical contact -- such as lacrosse, hockey and tackle football -- and these sports are not offered to us at the public middle school level, but they are to private middle schools.

Most of the students at both types of schools are around the same level of physical maturity, and if the school system is afraid that someone will get hurt, why aren't they afraid for students at private schools? I, along with many of my fellow classmates, would like to know why it is that way.